I Ended Famine by Transforming Saline-Alkali Land

Lin Shu, a researcher at the Academy of Agricultural Sciences, transmigrates overnight and becomes a sickly young woman who wheezes after three steps and coughs after five.

Her parents are dead, and she's dirt poor. Her only two mu of farmland have been sold off to pay a debt under pressure from her heartless aunt. On top of that, a perverted old widower is leering at her.

With no other choice, Lin Shu seeks out the man who saved her life: Lu Qingshan, a wounded soldier who has returned to civilian life.

A sickly woman marrying a man cursed to bring misfortune? Even the village dogs would shake their heads at that.

Some people think Lin Shu has a death wish. Even if her illness doesn't kill her, Lu Qingshan's deadly aura will.

Others mock Lu Qingshan for being poor. He can barely feed himself, yet dares to take on a money pit who needs medicine all the time?

How long can their life together possibly last?

When the government promotes the reclamation of saline-alkali land, everyone avoids it, but Lin Shu takes thirty mu in one go.

The villagers: Trying to grow crops in saline-alkali soil? You must be dreaming!

Lin Shu just smiles without a word.

With years of experience treating saline-alkali land and a farming System cheat, Lin Shu thinks thirty mu is far too little.

Can't farm saline-alkali land? No problem. Plant some forage grass to lower the soil's salt content.

Low crop yields on saline-alkali land? Don't worry. Use high-quality seeds and double the yield per mu.

The harvest's way up, but there's no money in it? No problem. Grow different crops together to create a healthy, sustainable economy.

Day by day, life goes on.

The barren saline-alkali land becomes rich farmland, and the high-yield seeds are all claimed before the harvest.

Sickly Lin Shu is not only still alive, she's looking healthier by the day. Lu Qingshan, the limping man cursed to bring misfortune, dons his armor and becomes a first-rank general who guards the nation.

The unlucky couple everyone used to avoid become not only the village's good-luck charms, helping everyone escape poverty and get rich, but also heroes who receive imperial titles for protecting the nation.

The people waiting to laugh at them end up with their faces swollen half a meter high.

The uncles who squandered the family fortune are too ashamed to come begging for help, while the heartless aunt regrets everything in the darkness of her prison cell.

*

Life is prosperous now, and Lu Qingshan's leg has healed. The day they agreed to divorce is fast approaching.

The gloomy man from before has finally been taught by her to become a handsome gentleman with a shy smile. Lin Shu really is just a tiny bit reluctant to let him go.

After turning it over in her mind, Lin Shu decides to use a beauty trap to make their fake marriage real. But she never expected him to make his move first.

Lu Qingshan, resplendent in his iron armor, holds a bright yellow imperial decree. His voice is cautious, yet full of anxiety and hope: "The emperor has granted you a title, so... I guess we can't divorce after all."

Theme: Ending hunger is everyone's responsibility.